Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2740

Chapter 2740 More than Power (Part 2)

"Nothing you do is good enough. Nothing the others do for you is good enough. Even when good things happen, you don't appreciate them because they don't measure to that accursed day." Marth said.

"Good gods!" Lith said as he finally understood the problem.

"It's like constantly wearing balls and chains that weigh you down the whole time, no matter where you are or with who you are. It's a nightmare." Marth closed his eyes and pinched his nose.

"Also, this is how it worked for me. There is no guarantee that Kamila will experience the same. She might need more time, less time, or some kind of trigger. Only the gods know."

"Any suggestion?" Several plans came up to Lith's mind but he discarded them all because his wife wasn't a problem to solve but a person who needed his help.

"None. On the plus side, I've heard that Kamila is learning magic, correct?" Duke asked, receiving a nod in reply. "Keep teaching her. The more she gains power, the less the shadow of her pregnancy will darken her."

<nulli>'That's true.' Lith pondered. <nulli>'Like Tyris said, the issue is that post-partum a regular Awakened loses half their prowess whereas Kamila got weaker by dozens of times. She just needs to get close to the cyan to feel like that again.'

"Another good thing is that, unlike the academy, Elisya didn't boost her magical talent like the shadows of my colleagues did with me hence she should be faring better than I did."

"About that…" Lith went to the crib and lifted a sleeping Elysia, bringing her in front of the amulet.

"Great Mother almighty!" Marth yelled in shock at the sight of the six elemental streaks in her hair yet his fatherly instincts also lowered the volume to not wake up the baby.

"Yeah. Turns out that a baby with streaks also passes her affinities and Kamila got a kicker from understanding the most complex things about magic by sheer instinct like a Divine Beast." Lith said.

"Who knows about the hair?" Marth set that particular problem aside for the moment.

"Just those who witnessed the childbirth. My family, my closest friends, and now you." Lith replied.

"Damn, the Royals are going to increase the security for the Gala to eleven." Marth passed his right hand on his face, massaging his stubble.

"Why? Do you think there is someone so crazy that they want another Day of the Black Sun?" Lith scoffed while picturing in his mind the summoning of Elisya's three god cards.

Leegaain the Omniscient, Tyris the Sky Griffon, and Salaark, the Winged Warrior of Destruction.

"No for the baby but the mother!" Marth scoffed in kind.

"What do you mean?" Lith was surprised by the Headmaster knowing about the bounty on Kamila's head, but he decided to play dumb and fish for information.

"Well, you have many eyes but no streaks. Kamila has no streaks either but since no one in your family has so many, what do you think people will come to believe? That they are on the mother's side or at least by your specific combination."

"That's ridiculous!" Lith blurted out. "My older brother had no streaks like me and my sisters got respectively a black and a red one. Those things aren't inherited."

"I know, but this is huge!" Math put his hands in his hair, not understanding how Lith could be so blind. "No one has ever been born with six streaks! That's something that happens only in legends."